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Between the Lines Ep. 5: Searching for Answers

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4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of Between the Lines, host Tashan Reed looks forward and highlights the prominent few around football who are working towards making the game more equal for all. And at the end, Reed comes to his conclusion after 18 months of reporting for the series. Voices in the episode include Mike Locksley, Richard Lapchick, Rod Graves, Oris Stuart, Jason Wright and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I mean it's hard to tell somebody that no.

0:12.0

You are there is real legitimate racial bias here.

0:14.9

We use those words.

0:16.6

We say it, but like I say it falls on deaf ears after it's said for a day or so.

0:21.8

There are only three head coaches in it in the film who identify as black.

0:26.6

That's the same number as there were last year in the year before that and the year before that and the year before that.

0:33.8

The hiring process is broken.

0:36.0

You know it's gone for the fact that the enemy doesn't have a job.

0:40.0

Says it all.

0:41.1

As former NFL head coach Hugh Jackson pointed out, that's the only way Eric B.

0:45.9

Enemy ends up in the situation.

0:48.1

And not even with Eric and look I know Andy Reed and Andy Rees is a tremendous person,

0:52.1

but for me to hear Andy say that maybe Eric needs to go somewhere else.

0:56.6

Are you kidding me?

0:57.8

Why would he need to go any place else?

1:00.0

After winning his second Super Bowl as Kansas City Chiefs Office of Coordinator,

1:04.6

the enemy left to work for another team.

1:07.0

But he didn't become a head coach.

1:09.2

He took over as the commander's Office of Coordinator.

1:12.7

Being a head coach right now, it hasn't happened.

1:15.1

It's not anything that's going to impact me moving forward.

1:18.5

Because the only thing I need to be concerned with, it's what's important today.

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